It has become a sign of spring for me to travel to Europe for the Annual EWEA conference and GWEC board meeting. This year we met in Copenhagen, Denmark. Each year these European events are scheduled two to three months before North America’s largest industry gathering, AWEA’s WINDPOWER 2012.
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An example of an ambitious home DIY project—Marc Chagall painting not for sale. When I do home projects, I sometimes make a plan. Other times (that would be most of the time), I just get into the project and figure it out as I go along.
At NRG Systems, we care passionately about two things: getting more wind turbines on the ground to generate clean, renewable energy, and putting them in environmentally responsible places.
During the rough and tumble of everyday life, it’s easy to get wrapped up in the immediate moment and lose sight of the broader perspective. This is true in all areas of our lives. In sports, a defeat can be overwhelming if not viewed as a learning experience.
Most people in the wind industry would agree that there are two things impeding the growth of wind power in the United States right now: lack of long-term federal policy and artificially low natural gas prices. Try as we might, we can’t control either one.
Jan Albers, author of Hands on the Land: A History of the Vermont Landscape (MIT Press, 2000), teaches that the process of making decisions about human impact on the landscape is demanding, complex and continuous. She has written: “Landscapes do not just spring fully formed, from the earth.
It’s déjà vu all over again. Once again, political shortsightedness threatens to stifle a booming wind industry just as it did 30 years ago.
Talk about cafeteria benefit plans! Since 2007, NRG Systems has contracted with Wild Leek Kitchen to provide free, catered lunch for every employee four days a week, with an emphasis on fresh, local, low-calorie food cooked from scratch.
Larry Gibson is an environmental hero. He didn’t ask for the “job” of bringing attention to the Appalachian tragedy of mountaintop removal. It came to him, his family, his backyard. It came to his mountain in West Virginia.
One doesn’t have to search long or far to find information on work-life balance issues. Everyone is talking about it, sharing opinions, stories, best practices, and research. It’s become a complicated and often misunderstood topic.